From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.20
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:49:48 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4575087C.6050906@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17781.27.369430.322758@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Andrew Morton writes:
>>radix-tree-rcu-lockless-readside.patch
>>
>> There's no reason to merge this yet.
>
>
> We want to use it in some powerpc arch code. Currently we use a
> per-cpu array of spinlocks, and this patch would let us get rid of
> that array.
I'd like to get another patch in here before going upstream if possible.
It is not a correctness fix, but it is a bit of a rework.
I also wouldn't mind getting the readahead path, if not the full
pagecache readside, out from under tree_lock in -mm kernels to exercise
the radix-tree concurrency a bit more.
It's just been painfully slow, recently because of these more important
buffered write vs deadlock and pagefault vs invalidate problems that
I've been working on. I don't feel I can load up -mm with too much
unrelated stuff that messes with mm/pagecache internals.
I guess the per-cpu spinlocks are pretty reasonable for scalability,
and you are mainly looking to eliminate the lock/unlock cost in your
interrupt path?
Nick
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-05 5:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 94+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-05 4:40 -mm merge plans for 2.6.20 Andrew Morton
2006-12-05 4:56 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-12-05 5:41 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-05 7:04 ` Jens Axboe
2006-12-05 15:00 ` Mark Lord
2006-12-06 19:19 ` Conke Hu
2006-12-06 19:26 ` Randy Dunlap
2006-12-06 19:40 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-12-06 22:36 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-05 5:14 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-12-05 5:42 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-05 5:53 ` Nick Piggin
2006-12-05 5:49 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2006-12-05 8:36 ` Gautham R Shenoy
2006-12-05 8:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-12-05 11:06 ` ext2 future [was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.20] Pavel Machek
2006-12-05 13:23 ` -mm merge plans for 2.6.20 John W. Linville
2006-12-05 14:27 ` Roman Zippel
2006-12-06 3:46 ` Horst Schirmeier
2006-12-05 16:02 ` Dave Jones
2006-12-12 17:49 ` Dave Jones
2006-12-19 5:20 ` Nick Piggin
2006-12-19 6:44 ` Dave Jones
2006-12-19 7:02 ` Nick Piggin
2007-01-07 17:36 ` page_mapcount(page) went negative Dave Jones
2007-01-10 23:53 ` Nick Piggin
2006-12-05 17:35 ` -mm merge plans for 2.6.20 James Simmons
2006-12-05 18:01 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-05 18:25 ` James Simmons
2006-12-05 18:37 ` [PATCH] backlight sysfs change to the fbdev drivers James Simmons
2006-12-05 18:37 ` James Simmons
2006-12-05 19:43 ` -mm merge plans for 2.6.20 Andrew Morton
2006-12-05 19:59 ` James Simmons
2006-12-05 20:20 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-05 21:34 ` James Simmons
2006-12-06 23:40 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-07 14:31 ` James Simmons
2006-12-05 20:40 ` Miguel Ojeda
2006-12-06 14:42 ` James Simmons
2006-12-05 19:18 ` Josef Sipek
2006-12-05 19:21 ` [PATCH 1/2] fsstack: Make fsstack_copy_attr_all copy inode size Josef Sipek
2006-12-05 19:22 ` [PATCH 2/2] fsstack: Fix up ecryptfs's fsstack usage Josef Sipek
2006-12-05 22:28 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-05 22:38 ` Josef Sipek
2006-12-05 22:49 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-05 23:16 ` Josef Sipek
2006-12-05 21:00 ` -mm merge plans for 2.6.20 Ingo Molnar
2006-12-05 21:17 ` -mm merge plans for 2.6.20, scheduler bits Ingo Molnar
2006-12-05 20:59 ` Siddha, Suresh B
2006-12-05 21:47 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-12-05 21:29 ` Miguel Ojeda
2006-12-06 2:59 ` -mm merge plans for 2.6.20 Roman Zippel
2006-12-06 4:30 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-06 8:32 ` Thomas Gleixner
2006-12-06 12:54 ` Roman Zippel
2006-12-06 13:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-12-06 14:33 ` Roman Zippel
2006-12-06 15:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-12-06 16:42 ` Roman Zippel
2006-12-06 16:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-12-06 16:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-12-12 20:40 ` [RFC] HZ free ntp john stultz
2006-12-13 9:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-12-13 18:48 ` john stultz
2006-12-13 13:47 ` Roman Zippel
2006-12-13 19:19 ` john stultz
2006-12-13 20:40 ` Roman Zippel
2006-12-20 1:32 ` john stultz
2006-12-20 1:54 ` john stultz
2006-12-21 4:26 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-01 18:29 ` Roman Zippel
2007-01-02 19:46 ` john stultz
2007-01-02 20:50 ` john stultz
2007-01-06 16:56 ` Roman Zippel
2007-01-22 19:27 ` [patch] HZ-free NTP Ingo Molnar
2007-01-22 19:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-01-01 16:27 ` [RFC] HZ free ntp Roman Zippel
2007-01-02 19:42 ` john stultz
2007-01-06 16:46 ` Roman Zippel
2006-12-06 12:33 ` -mm merge plans for 2.6.20 Roman Zippel
2006-12-08 14:09 ` Stephen Smalley
2006-12-08 20:58 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-10 15:07 ` Mimi Zohar
2006-12-09 9:30 ` Randy Dunlap
2006-12-09 9:44 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-10 20:12 ` Randy Dunlap
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-12-05 23:55 Alessandro Guido
2006-12-06 0:13 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-08 18:32 Steve French
2006-12-08 21:38 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-10 3:18 Chuck Ebbert
2006-12-11 4:19 ` Steve French
2006-12-11 9:32 Chuck Ebbert
2006-12-13 1:09 Chuck Ebbert
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